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tended to confirm tliem in their superstition ; for^ on the 
occasion of a religious ceremony^, wherein his spirit was 
invQked^ and which took place shortly after his decease^ 
it was declared that he was seen by Idia^ and one of the 
priests. To the latter it was said he appeared, above 
the waters of the sea, having the upper part of his person 
bound with many folds of finely braided cinet. From this 
circumstance his favourite wife assumed the name of Tane 
furua^ from Tane, a husband, and rurua, bound round, 
or bound repeatedly. 
Towards the middle of the year 1804, the king went 
over to Eimeo, taking with him the great idol Oro, to 
propitiate whom, so many of the inhabitants had 
been sacrificed. About the same time, Mr. Caw, a ship¬ 
wright from England, joined the Mission. Otu now 
assumed the name of Pomare, which has ever since been 
the regal name in Tahiti. Its assumption by his father 
was, as many names are among the Tahitians, perfectly 
accidental. He was travelling, with a number of his 
followers, in a mountainous part of Tahiti, where it was 
necessary to spend the night in a temporary encamp¬ 
ment. The chiefs" tent was pitched in an exposed 
situation; a heavy dew fell among the mountains; he 
took cold, and the next morning was affected with a 
cough; this led some of his companions to designate the 
preceding night by the appellation of po-mare, night of 
cough, from po^ night, and mare^ cough. The chief was 
pleased with the sound of the words thus associated, 
adopted them as his name, and was ever afterwards 
called Po-ma-re. With the name he also associated the 
title of majesty, styling himself, and receiving the 
appellation of, ^^His Majesty Pomare.’" 
Peace continued during the remainder of the year, and 
